Marco Scutaro

SAN FRANCISCO — The Kansas City Royals might have skipped the World Series for three decades, but they have an identity now. Ladies and gentlemen, the Royals Way: a lockdown bullpen, suffocating defense and speed to kill. The Oakland Athletics have a way, the zig-when-others-zag philosophy labeled and unfortunately caricatured as "Moneyball." The Atlanta Braves had a way in their heyday: Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz. The Tampa Bay Rays have enough of a way — disciplined spending and analytics-based roster management — that the Dodgers handed the keys to their kingdom to Andrew Friedman, the guy that ran the Rays. The object of the game is to win the World...

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